Overall spending on Translation and Interpreting Services - Find a freedom of information request

1.  Please confirm your overall spending on Translation and Interpreting Services, for each of the financial years:

a.      2020-2021:

b.      2022-2023:

2.  Please provide a breakdown of languages for the last 12 months

3.  What languages were your suppliers not able to supply in 2022?

4. Which external supplier(s) do you currently use to deliver your interpreting and translation services ?

5. Are you able to provide approximate fee / interpreting session for:

a.      In-person/face to face interpreting

b.      Telephone interpreting

c.      Video interpreting

6.  If you outsource the provision of interpreting services to an external provider,

could you please confirm:

a) Whether the provider was contracted via a national framework? If so,

which one?

b) When does the current contract expire?

c) Is there is an exclusivity clause, which would prevent the trust from

piloting new cost saving interpreting services during the duration of your contract with your existing provider?

7. From which budget within your organisation are interpreting services funded?

8. Where do you advertise your tenders?  If you do not do a full tender / which frameworks would you use?

9. What is the start and end date for either the framework or direct contracts you have with interpreting and translation supplier(s)?

10. Please provide the name and email of the contract manager for the service

11. If we would like to engage in conversation with a member of staff in your organisation to discuss the innovation we propose to develop, who would be the most suitable person to approach?

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. a. £60, 760.27

    b. £317, 801.49

2. Languages for September 2022 - September 2023:

Afghan Pashtu

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic

Arabic (Levantine)

Arabic (Moroccan/Tunisian/Algerian/Libyan)

Bahasa

Indonesia

Bengali

Bravanese

BSL (British Sign Language)

Bulgarian

Cantonese

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Czech Dari

English Farsi

Farsi (Persian)

French

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Kurdish / Kurdish Sorani

Kurdish Badini

Kurdish Bahdini

Kurdish Kurmanji

Kurdish Sorani

Latvian

Latvian (Lettish)

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Malay

Malayalam

Malinke

Mandarin

Mandinka

Nepali

Oromo

Oromo ( Afan)

Pashto

Pashtu

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Romanian

Romanian (Moldova)

Russian

Slovak

Somali

Spanish

Sudanese Arabic

Swahili

Sylheti

Tamil

Tigrinya

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Vietnamese

Yoruba

3. None

4. The corporate contract is with DA Languages, however other suppliers can be sourced when necessary.

5. a) The corporate contract is with DA Languages, however other suppliers can be sourced when necessary.

b) The corporate contract is with DA Languages, however other suppliers can be sourced when necessary.

c) The corporate contract is with DA Languages, however other suppliers can be sourced when necessary.

6.a) ESPO Framework

   b) 31/03/2024

   c) Yes

7. Various

8. ESPO Framework

9. 1st April 2020 - 31st March 2024

10. Andrew Hancy, andrew.hancy@lincolnshire.gov.uk

11. Andrew Hancy, Head of Business Support